Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Petronilla

#30,708 most common girls' name of all time · #49,584 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1907–1935

Rank among girls
#30,708
Rank overall
#49,584 of 105,966
First appeared
1907
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
57
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1927 #4,025
Best rank
#2,378 1907
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1920

Petronilla first appears in 1907. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1935 6 — 6 #3,902
1932 6 — 6 #4,081
1929 6 — 6 #4,251
1927 7 — 7 #4,025
1921 5 — 5 #5,288
1920 6 — 6 #4,598
1917 6 — 6 #4,243
1913 5 — 5 #3,439
1909 5 — 5 #2,463
1907 5 — 5 #2,378